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Normative data for eight neuropsychological tests based on a Danish sample
Author(s) -
NIELSEN HENRY,
KNUDSEN LONE,
DAUGBJERG OLE
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1989.tb01066.x
Subject(s) - psychology , test (biology) , neuropsychological test , neuropsychology , boston naming test , normative , audiology , wechsler adult intelligence scale , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , cognition , psychiatry , medicine , paleontology , philosophy , epistemology , biology
Normative neuropsychological data have been provided using a sample of 101 persons aged 20 to 54 years. Eighty‐seven of the subjects were recruited among patients who had undergone minor surgery, and 14 subjects were volunteers from the staff at the hospital laundry. The measures consisted of seven subjects from the WAIS‐R, the trail‐making test, symbol digit modalities test, auditory–verbal learning test, story recall test, visual gestalt test, recurring figures test, verbal fluency, and Purdue pegboard test. These measures were selected because of suitability in regard to time taken for testing each subject and their sensitivity to subtle changes in neuropsychological functioning. The sample was arbitrarily divided into three age groups, and for each of the three samples, mean, standard deviation, and range were calculated for each test. The results of the Information and Vocabulary subtests from the WAIS‐R, education, and social status were applied as independent variables in linear regression analyses where each of the neuropsychological tests, in turn, was the dependent variable. For the oldest age group, age in addition was used as an independent variable. Significant linear relationships, which accounted for an optimal part of the variance, were selected for clinical application.